I was so strange.
I expected to talk about health and exercise, meal plans and weight goals. But what I received was far stranger than I ever would have thought.
I walked into the clinic which was on the second floor and smelled like an old antique shop. When I walked in the furniture for the waiting room was patio furniture and there was a display for a bunch of anti wrinkle/ hormone treatment but whatever I’m just here for weight loss help.
After waiting an hour the doctor comes in with a quick hello and tells me he’s going to prescribe me a pill that makes me lose weight. I won’t get addicted and it’s not bad for me but it might make me “bitchy”.
I asked what about meal plans and cravings? He said eat whatever I want, I just have to do intermediate fasting: I said even if I crave hamburgers and chicken wings? He said whatever you want just be sure you have at least 12 hours of fasting between meals.
I said what about exercise? He said no need, I have body builders coming in all the time and they too know exercise is for muscle not for losing fat.
I said well I want to maintain this weight loss and make sure it stays off.
“Well who cares about how much you weight so long as you look good am I right?”
Out comes a book with a bunch of previous people he helped. It’s a bunch of graphs and as he flips through it he says all of them maintained loss through the intermediate fasting.
“I’ve been doing this for 18 years. I used to hand out books about dieting but it mentions having snacks in between and used to have a dieting book but I can’t in good faith now give it out to patience since it mentions in between snacking and you don’t do that with intermediate fasting.”
I know realized why whenever I first asked about a consultation the receptionist was just like “ he gives you a pill” and that’s it. The conversation was brief and he prescribed Phentermine.
I don’t know what to do, he’s been doing this for 18 years but it goes against everything I’ve been taught. I missing something, is it wrong for me to second guess what he’s said. I don’t know what to think.
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